Deborah trained at both Drama Studio London, where she completed a 1 Year Postgraduate in Acting,
and the University of Northumbria, where she gained a 1st Class BA (Hons) Performance Degree.
She also attended the Edinburgh Acting School & passed Guildhall Speech & Drama Exams up to Grade 8.
Gifted in both comic & serious roles, Deborah's stage credits are diverse.
They include:
Chekhov (Anfisa in The Three Sisters)
Christmas Shows (Beth Cratchett in A Christmas Carol)
Comedy (Countess De Lage in The Women)
Commedia D'ell Arte (Esmarelda in No Fleas On Me)
Greek Tragedy (Hecuba in The Golden Masque Of Agamemnon & Phaedra in Phaedra)
Lorca (The Pagan Woman in Yerma)
Modern Drama (Teresa in The Memory Of Water & Ellen in Foreign Lands)
Moliére (Madame Jacqui in The Miser)
Musical Theatre (Tina in Lipstick On Your Collar & Widow Corney in Oliver!)
Noel Coward (Julia in Fallen Angels)
Opera/Operetta (2nd Goose in Paul Bunyan & Chorus in Hansel and Gretel)
Pantomime (Mrs McOrge in Puss In Boots & Dame Bumble in Frosty The Snowman)
Physical Theatre (Betty Goldberg in Verse 5 & Verse 27)
Restoration (Bellinda in The Provok'd Wife)
Scots Drama (Elizabeth in Abandonment & Ellen in Bondagers)
Shakespeare (Regan in King Lear & Hostess in The Merry Wives Of Windsor).
Film & TV roles include: Louisa Macrae in The Misfits, Henchman in Hotpants Jones & The Afrocomb Of Gold,
Freya in The Honey Trap, and a corporate video for BBC Scotland in which she played an Art Student called Sam.
Deborah is also co-founder of Absolute Finnloch Theatre Company and wrote,
produced, & starred as Lilith in Eve & Lilith at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival.
Specialising in speech from an early age, Deborah has a warm, rich, resonant voice.
She has a gift for Shakespearian & Classical texts and works as a Voiceover Artist as well as an
Actress, Singer & Musician. She has taken Shakespeare masterclasses with Patrick Tucker & Jane Lapotaire,
Voice masterclasses with Barbara Houseman & Cicely Berry, and has studied Alexander Technique & Lessac.
Other skills include: accents, cellist, choral singing, comedy, composing & arranging, country dancing, devising, driving, harmony, horse-riding, improvisation, masque, mime, musical theatre, period dance, physical theatre, poetry, public speaking, reading music (fluent), scriptwriting, Shakespeare, sightreading, workshops.
